{Preface} Ahh my first MOC post in a while... and my first castle... (Coincidence?) This forced me to miss Josh Wendin's battle comp so it better be good {On to the post:}

Hi all,

I present Cliffton Castle:

(pic=link to gallery)
deeplinks at bottom of post : )

Cliffton Castle, known locally as the 'Castle of Three Trees' (all right, there are six trees if you want to be picky...), is an outpost of the great Black Knight Empire. It serves primarily as a heavily fortified beacon post

but also has a small harbour front

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Its name comes from Cliffton Lodge which once dominated the clifftop before the gradually expanding fortifications displaced it.

Pics of the 20 odd interiors (with some location references) can be found here.

And if you're really interested, my faviorite small details are in this folder (pic=link)

Please let me know what you think... I normally include a few fun details but this time I can only offer you the chance to spot two cunning Wolf Pack raiders...

Very beautiful!
So colorful & rich.
I love how all the villagers are frolicking around & about....drinking, selling apples, fighting, etc.
I like how you incorporated the town buildings into the Castle's design too. It looks amazingly good!
It seems you got the mottling right also!
There's not a whole lot more I can say......it's just Beautiful!

Now that is one awesome huge castle! That must have taken ages to build. I love the way the building on the very right (the blue and white one) is incorporated into the wall. very good job!
And the furniture is also great. I especially like this http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1257869That is an awesome piece of work.

I just spent about 30 minutes looking at all the details of this castle now that the gallery is public.
Im amazed at how much time you must have put into this.
Your moc has made me realized that I need to stop spending so much money on grey bricks & instead spend money on pieces to detail my mocs.
The amount of detail in this moc just blows me away!

Very very cool. I agree with Formendacil, the mottling is very well done. Something that eludes me as well.

I love the 'randomness' of the castle the most, another thing that eludes my building abilities. I can never make a castle that isn't overly symmetrical or straight or whatever. Your castle has a very authentic organicness to it that just wows me.

I will certainly have to study this castle when it comes time for my next large MOC.

--Anthony

Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day.Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Where have you been hiding? Wow. This is the best castle I've seen in a while. Like Sava said, it just flows with the landscape. It really doesn't feel like the land is built around the castle. Very natural. Make sure to post your next one.

Most awesome structures made by lego builders skip the interior and only makes the facade, but this has both an interior and an exterior of utter beauty!

Interior is something I usually see as a problem, either the castle will lack an exterior, or an interior. Its also enormous, and everything is one way or another linked together! There are many awesome small details... Hope I dont flatter you to much.

that's a great castle! The landscaping is very well done and I like its irregular shape and the big civillian portion of it. Also the many small details are nice. The bestest detail, in my opinion, is the woman with the water buckets (or cans or however you would call it.) at the well. And I do not pick her just because she's the rare forest maid with a somewhat rare white hat :-)

Bye
Jojo

This is just the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put.Winston Churchill

Jacob C. wrote:I just spent about 30 minutes looking at all the details of this castle now that the gallery is public.Im amazed at how much time you must have put into this.Your moc has made me realized that I need to stop spending so much money on grey bricks & instead spend money on pieces to detail my mocs.The amount of detail in this moc just blows me away!

...How long did it take you to build the whole thing?

Wow! I'm honoured! Personaly I had to buy grey for this MOC so I can't see the other side of the coin : ) It took about a month and a half to build... and a delay for pics : )

Very very cool. I agree with Formendacil, the mottling is very well done. Something that eludes me as well.

I love the 'randomness' of the castle the most, another thing that eludes my building abilities. I can never make a castle that isn't overly symmetrical or straight or whatever. Your castle has a very authentic organicness to it that just wows me.

I will certainly have to study this castle when it comes time for my next large MOC.

--Anthony

As too the mottling... that was a first as well, so I'm glad it came off! The 'organicness' (great way to put it) was something I reall went for, I wanted a castle that looked like it had been expanded around the terrain...

Wow. This is the best castle I've seen in a while. Like Sava said, it just flows with the landscape. It really doesn't feel like the land is built around the castle. Very natural. [Dragonlord Esq.]

Contiuing my last thought... to achieve the 'flow' I decided to build the mountain/scenery first, leaving only room for a few basements and then build the castle 'in'...

Most awesome structures made by lego builders skip the interior and only makes the facade, but this has both an interior and an exterior of utter beauty!

Interior is something I usually see as a problem, either the castle will lack an exterior, or an interior. Its also enormous, and everything is one way or another linked together! There are many awesome small details... Hope I dont flatter you to much.

Thanks much! I've always built interiors, but never put a concerted effort into set pieces (like the hutch) before...

that's a great castle! The landscaping is very well done and I like its irregular shape and the big civillian portion of it. Also the many small details are nice. The bestest detail, in my opinion, is the woman with the water buckets (or cans or however you would call it.) at the well. And I do not pick her just because she's the rare forest maid with a somewhat rare white hat Bye Jojo

I doubt the rareness would greatly affect you : ) Thanks for the endorsement though...!

That is very impressive! It is so full of detail that I still feel like I have missed most of the detail and I examined each picture. I am overwhelmed...words fail me...

Josh

You must have been posting while I was... I am shocked you would look over it so closely!! Hopefully all good... All I see when I look at my own pics is a load of stuff that could have been done better...